Fabric Surround and Method of Use

ABSTRACT

A cylindrical fabric surround including a flexible fabric material which stretches during disposing of the surround over a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, causing a releasable attachment of the bottle surround with the bottle. This cylindrical fabric surround has a cylindrical, or annular surround geometry, whereby a cavity is formed therein by the internal wall of the cylindrical surround, providing a receptacle area or volume for any cylindrical item the cylindrical surround is disposed thereunto. The internal wall of the cavity provides a first wall of the cylindrical surround and the external wall of the cylindrical surround provides a second wall of the cylindrical surround. The surround also has at least one pocket, for storing at least one article, such as a phone, keys or any sundry. The pocket is generally facing upwards, but could have a plurality of pockets with at least one of with varied geometries, orientations, or placement. Bands, such as elastic bands, may be formed thereon the top and bottom of the cylinder, as well as on the top portion of the pocket surface to provide a portion of the releasable attachment to the bottle. The bands may have a diameter that is less than surround wall diameter to provide in the releasable attachment. A friction agent, such as a nonslip fabric coating, may also be applied to the first wall or inside diameter of the surround to aid in improving the releasable attachment of a cylindrical item, such as a bottle, with a first wall of the fabric cylinder surround apparatus  100  when disposed thereunto.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

The present application claims priority from U.S. Provisional PatentApplication Ser. No. 62/929,925 filed on Nov. 3, 2019, which isincorporated herein by reference in its entirety.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to a cylindrical stretchable fabricsurround for a cylindrical object, such as a bottle.

Background

The present invention relates generally to a cylindrical fabric surroundor annular sleeve, likely fabricated from a stretchable material,including at least one pocket, such as an external pocket, made from atleast one piece of fabric. The invention is a fabric surround for itemssuch as at least one bottle, beverage container, cylindrical item,whereby the at least one pocket provides a convenient place to store anyitem such as at least one cell phone, a key, credit card, money, othersnot mentioned here.

The benefits of this current invention include the ability to bring abottle and at least one stored item, such as a cell phone to anylocation, such as a weight room, exercise area or other public area. Thebenefits of this current invention include the ability to releasablystore at least one item, such as a phone, upon a freestanding item, suchas a water bottle, to avoid placing the phone in your pocket, or upon alocal surface which may contain any number of contagions.

The fabric material used to develop the fabric surround or annularsleeve may include at least one of a thin fabric, stretchable thinfabric, knit, a jersey knit, spandex, a spandex blend, a polyesterblend, a polymer, neoprene, elastomers, elastic. The user can easilystore any item by placing or tucking it in between the flexible, andstretchy, material of the sleeve and the bottle.

The innovative design of the fabric surround provides for the releasabletucking of an item for storage into the pocket of the surround, whichalso provides easy access to the stored article. The releasable tuckingand untucking of at least one stored item may be performed using onlyone of the user's hands. This stored item is held in the pocket of thefabric surround by at least one of force such as a tensile, compression,torsion, radial, imparted by at least one pocket and the fabric surroundupon the stored article.

Other technology and products related to this application use at leastone of a strap, zipper, Velcro, or other buckling features to hold thephone, making the stored item less releasable and accessible.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in asimplified form that are further described below in the DetailedDescription. This Summary is not intended to identify key features oressential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended tobe used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.

In one embodiment, the present invention is a cylindrical surroundapparatus made from fabric, disposed over a cylindrical item, such as abottle. This cylindrical fabric surround may be flexible or made fromflexible fabric, and has an annular surround geometry whereby a cavityis formed therein the cylindrical surround providing a receptacle areafor any cylindrical item the cylindrical surround is disposed upon orthereunto. The internal wall of the cavity provides a first wall, orinternal wall, of the of the cylindrical surround. The external wall ofthe cylindrical surround provides a second wall, or external secondwall, of the cylindrical surround. Other common names for a deviceproviding a cylindrical surround apparatus made from fabric may includeat least one of an annular sleeve, surround, sleeve, sock,encapsulation, others not mentioned here. Additionally, the fabricsurround is generally releasable connected with at least one bottle,water bottle, can, thermos or similar, but can be used interchangeablywith any generally round or cylindrical item. In fact, the surroundcould be used with an item of any geometry that provides a releasableattachment with the fabric surround apparatus. The fabric surroundprovides a cylindrical annular surround for the cylindrical item, suchas a bottle, by being disposed over the cylindrical item. Once thecylindrical surround apparatus is disposed thereunto the cylindricalitem, the cylindrical item resides in the internal cavity or receivingspace formed by the geometry of the cylindrical surround apparatus. Thecylindrical surround apparatus may be formed from at least one of aflexible, stretchable fabric or material. The fabric surround isgenerally formed from at least one fabric article, and can be formedfrom two articles of fabric sewn to develop a seam at the top and bottomof the surround, as well as around three sides of the pocket of thefabric surround. In addition, a band, such as an elastic band, isattached at the top and bottom of the surround, as well as at the top ofthe pocket opening. The disposing of the surround may typically beperformed by pulling the fabric surround over a cylindrical item, suchas a bottle, to create a releasable attachment such as an interferencefitted, compressive fitted, or frictionally fitted assembly. Thisinterference fit or compressive fit is the result of the compression, orinterference or overlap between the diameter of the bottle, or othercylindrical item, and the diameter of the fabric surround apparatus. Thestretchable material provides at least one force, such as a compressive,tensile, radial or other force on the at least one cylindrical item, asa result of the interference fit, causing a releasably connected systembetween the fabric surround and cylindrical item assembly. The design ofthe fabric surround releasable attachment also provisions the surroundto be rotatable or rotatably mounted upon the cylindrical item, such asa bottle, or relative to the cylindrical item. To rotate the fabricsurround around the cylindrical item, or relative to the cylindricalitem, a radial force or torsion is applied to at least one of the fabricsurround and cylindrical item in opposite directions to overcome the atleast one attachment of a frictional or interference fit between thefabric surround and the cylindrical item. The stitching, materials ofconstruction, and sizing of the fabric surround aid in the rotatableaspect of the fabric surround around the cylindrical item.

Similarly, a force, such as a tensile, compressive, radial, or otherforce may act upon an item located in any pocket of the fabric surrounddue to at least one of the stretch, flexibility and expansion of atleast one portion of the pocket and the fabric surround. This at leastone force is beneficial for gripping or holding an item being storedbetween the fabric surround and the cylindrical item, as well as betweenthe pocket and any item placed in the pocket. Optionally, at least onefriction agent, such as a frictional coefficient improvement coating,anti-slip fabric coating, nonslip fabric coating, friction agent may beadhered to any wall of the fabric surround, including any portion of anywall or any portion of a pocket of the surround. This friction agentprovides at least one of additional grip, friction, an increase infrictional coefficient, an increase in frictional coefficient whilestill providing a releasable attachment.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Other aspects, features, and advantages of the present invention willbecome more fully apparent from the following detailed description, theappended claims, and the accompanying drawings in which like referencenumerals identify similar or identical elements.

FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround apparatus, with astored item, according to a first exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround partially disposedover a cylinder according to a first exemplary embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 3 shows a perspective view of a fabric surround disposed over acylindrical item according to a first exemplary embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIG. 4 shows a side view of a fabric surround; according to a firstexemplary embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows an alternative perspective view of fabric surround for usewith a cylindrical item.

FIG. 6A shows a sketch showing a first band according to the currentexemplary invention;

FIG. 6B shows a sketch showing a second band according to the currentexemplary invention;

FIG. 6D shows a first fabric article for a current exemplary invention;

FIG. 6C shows a sketch showing a second fabric article for a currentexemplary invention;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

In the drawings, like numerals indicate like elements throughout.Certain terminology is used herein for convenience only and is not to betaken as a limitation on the present invention. The terminology includesthe words specifically mentioned, derivatives thereof and words ofsimilar import. As used herein, the term “inner” or “internal” means adirection toward an axially central portion of the inventive device andthe term “outer” or “external” means a direction away from the axiallycentral portion of the inventive device. The embodiments illustratedbelow are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to theprecise form disclosed. These embodiments are chosen and described tobest explain the principle of the invention and its application andpractical use and to enable others skilled in the art to best utilizethe invention.

Reference herein to “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” means that aparticular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connectionwith the embodiment can be included in at least one embodiment of theinvention. The appearances of the phrase “in one embodiment” in variousplaces in the specification are not necessarily all referring to thesame embodiment, nor are separate or alternative embodiments necessarilymutually exclusive of other embodiments. The same applies to the term“implementation.”

As used in this application, the word “exemplary” is used herein to meanserving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any aspect or designdescribed herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed aspreferred or advantageous over other aspects or designs. Rather, use ofthe word exemplary is intended to present concepts in a concretefashion.

Additionally, the term “or” is intended to mean an inclusive “or” ratherthan an exclusive “or”. That is, unless specified otherwise, or clearfrom context, “X employs A or B” is intended to mean any of the naturalinclusive permutations. That is, if X employs A; X employs B; or Xemploys both A and B, then “X employs A or B” is satisfied under any ofthe foregoing instances. In addition, the articles “a” and “an” as usedin this application and the appended claims should generally beconstrued to mean “one or more” unless specified otherwise or clear fromcontext to be directed to a singular form.

Although the subject matter described herein may be described in thecontext of illustrative implementations to process one or more computingapplication features/operations for a computing application havinguser-interactive components the subject matter is not limited to theseparticular embodiments. Rather, the techniques described herein can beapplied to any suitable type of user-interactive component executionmanagement methods, systems, platforms, and/or apparatus.

Unless explicitly stated otherwise, each numerical value and rangeshould be interpreted as being approximate as if the word “about” or“approximately” preceded the value of the value or range.

The use of figure numbers and/or figure reference labels in the claimsis intended to identify one or more possible embodiments of the claimedsubject matter in order to facilitate the interpretation of the claims.Such use is not to be construed as necessarily limiting the scope ofthose claims to the embodiments shown in the corresponding figures.

It should be understood that the steps of the exemplary methods setforth herein are not necessarily required to be performed in the orderdescribed, and the order of the steps of such methods should beunderstood to be merely exemplary. Likewise, additional steps may beincluded in such methods, and certain steps may be omitted or combined,in methods consistent with various embodiments of the present invention.

Although the elements in the following method claims, if any, arerecited in a particular sequence with corresponding labeling, unless theclaim recitations otherwise imply a particular sequence for implementingsome or all of those elements, those elements are not necessarilyintended to be limited to being implemented in that particular sequence.

Also for purposes of this description, the terms “attached,” “sewn,”“adhered,” “seam,” “binding,” “to bind,” “bound,” “to band,” “banded,”“bound,” “couple,” “coupling,” “coupled,” “connect,” “connecting,” or“connected” refer to any manner known in the art or later developed inwhich energy is allowed to be transferred between two or more elements,and the interposition of one or more additional elements iscontemplated, although not required. Conversely, the terms “directlycoupled,” “directly connected,” etc., imply the absence of suchadditional elements.

Referring to the FIGS. 1 through 6, a fabric surround apparatus 100according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is shown.Fabric surround apparatus 100 can be used as at least one surround,fabric surround, protective surround, storage element, for at least onebottle, beverage container, thermos, can, cylindrical item, others notmentioned here. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may include at least onepocket, whereby the at least one pocket may provide a portable andconvenient place to store an item such as at least one of a cell phone,a key, a credit card, money, others not mentioned here. Any item can bereleasably stored, releasably attached, releasably engaged, releasablybonded, connected to apparatus 100 by tucking or placing it between theflexible material of the surround and the at least one of a bottle,beverage container, cylindrical item, a larger diameter cylindricalitem, thermos, others not mentioned here. By being tucked into thepocket, the at least one stored article is releasably held in place byat least one of tensile, frictional, compression, torsion, and any otherforce developed by the at least one pocket and acting upon thereunto theat least one item stored article. At least one item may also be at leastone of releasably attached, releasably connected to fabric surroundapparatus 100 by at least one of clipping, clamping, adhering,attaching, connecting, sewing, others not mentioned here.

Referring to FIG. 1, fabric surround apparatus 100 is comprised of anexternal wall, or second wall such as wall 5, in addition to stitch 10,seam 15, stitch 16, seam 17, an external wall such as wall 20, top 25,band 30, article 35, user link 40, link 45, pocket 50, wall 52, wall 53,wall 55, bottom 60, band 61, others not mentioned here. A first wall, aninternal wall, is provided on the internal portion or cavity portion ofthe fabric cylinder surround. The external wall of the cylindricalsurround provides a second wall, such as wall 5 of the cylindricalsurround. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is formed generally in acylindrical annular fashion, with the top portion of fabric surroundapparatus 100 bound by band 30, the bottom portion bound by band 61, theradial portion bound by stitch 16 and seam 17, where stitch 16 and seam17 are shown here as a longitudinal stitch and seam, respectively, forillustrative purposes. As contained in this disclosure, bound may beused in correlation to bind, or the act of binding, where one binds anarticle of fabric at least one of together and providing a boundarythereto. This cylindrical fabric surround may be flexible or made fromflexible fabric, and has an annular surround geometry whereby a cavityis formed by the internal first wall or first wall of the cylindricalsurround. This cavity provides at least one of a receiving space and areceptacle space for any cylindrical item, such as a bottle or largerdiameter cylinder, the cylindrical surround is disposed thereunto.Larger diameter cylinder, as contained herein, is any generallycylindrical item with a diameter greater than at least one of the firstand second wall, a band such as band 30 and band 61, any diameter offabric surround apparatus 100. At least one of band 61 and band 30, inthe current exemplary embodiment, may have a radius that is less than aradius of at least one of wall 20, wall 5, any wall of fabric surroundapparatus 100, any internal wall of fabric surround apparatus 100.

Fabric surround apparatus 100 contains at least one through opening,internal space such as a hollow internal portion indicated by opening 26and opening 62 in FIG. 1. Through opening 26 on the top, and throughopening 62 on the bottom indicate a hollow opening that runs theentirety of at least one of the length and height of fabric surroundapparatus 100, such as therefrom top 25 through bottom 60. This at leastone through opening, annular internal space, and a hollow internalportion of fabric surround apparatus 100 provides a receiving space or areceptacle space for a cylindrical article, such as bottle, when fabricsurround apparatus 100 is disposed over such a cylindrical item orbottle. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least one of flexible,stretchable, elastic, semi-rigid, semi-flexible, able to expand radiallyor diametrically to conform to the diameter of an article such as acylindrical item or bottle with a diameter equal to or greater than theat least one through opening, annular internal space, and a hollowinternal portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, during disposingfabric surround apparatus 100 over the larger diameter cylindrical item.Fabric surround apparatus 100 may be disposed onto a bottle orcylindrical item by inserting at least one portion of the top and bottomof a cylindrical item into through opening 26 or through opening 62, andby pushing or pulling the cylindrical item thereinto one of opening 26and opening 62, and through at least one of fabric surround apparatus100 via through opening 26 or through opening 62.

Referring FIG. 1, when a cylindrical article, such as a bottle, isplaced into fabric surround 100, a first end of the cylindrical articlemay extend therethrough top 25 of fabric surround apparatus 100, and asecond end of the cylindrical article may extend therethrough bottom 60of fabric surround apparatus 100. During the disposing of fabricsurround apparatus 100 over a cylindrical item, force may be applied toat least one of a portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and thecylindrical item, such as through at least one of holding, pulling,pushing, wiggling. The at least one force may be applied in a generallyopposing fashion, such that the force applied to the fabric surroundapparatus 100 is applied in a direction generally or somewhat oppositeto the direction of force applied to the cylindrical item. Other methodsof disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 over a cylindrical iteminclude at least one of pulling on one side of fabric surround apparatus100, expanding any flexible diameter of fabric surround apparatus 100,pulling on any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, applying forceto any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, pulling or applyingforce to at least one portion of user link 40, applying force to anyappendage of fabric surround apparatus 100, others not mentioned here.

Fabric surround apparatus 100 may be at least one of flexible, generallyflexible, stretchable, elastic, semi-rigid, and may have the ability toprovide an acting force such as a tensile force, radial force,centrifugal force, centripetal force, compressive force upon any articleplace thereunto fabric surround apparatus 100. Similarly, fabricsurround apparatus 100 may generally provide one of an inward bias,radial force, an inward radial force, upon any item place thereuntofabric surround apparatus 100, and provide a radially inward force uponany item placed thereunto the internal wall of fabric surround apparatus100. Fabric surround apparatus 100 may have at least one insidediameter, first wall, internal wall, second wall, external wall, anydiameter, a nominal diameter, any dimension, any radius, at least one ofdesigned and sized to provide a snug fit unto any article tucked orplaced in the interior annular space or interior wall of fabric surroundapparatus 100.

Referring to FIG. 1, wall 5 is a fabric wall bound by stitching as shownin FIG. 1, such as by at least one of stitch 16, stitch 10, stitch 65.Stitch 16 is considered generally vertical or longitudinal in thecurrent exemplary embodiment. Stitch 10 and stitch 65 are considered tobe one of radially positioned, and horizontally running around thegeneral perimeter or circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100.

Referring to FIG. 1, fabric surround apparatus 100 includes pocket 50,which extends generally radially outward from at least one of fabricsurround apparatus 100, wall 5, and wall 20. Pocket 50 includes at leastone outward face, such as wall 52, which is the shown as the outermostportion of pocket 50 in the current exemplary embodiment. Pocket 50 isshown as generally bound by band 51 at the top of pocket 50, stitch 16,seam 17 on one side of pocket 50, with a seam and stitch and similar tostitch 16 and seam 15 provided for binding the other side of pocket 50of fabric surround apparatus 100. Pocket 50 may have at least one band,such as band 51, formed at the top of pocket 50 with a radius less thanthat of the radius of at least one portion of pocket 50, such as wall52, others not mentioned here. This at least one band may provide atleast one of a minority, an equal share, the majority, and all of theholding force upon any article, such as a phone, positioned thereunto atleast one of pocket 50 and band 51. A radius and diameter, as usedherein, is generally described with a center or origin located at leastone of at the center of the fabric surround apparatus 100 and the centerof any cylindrical item placed thereupon fabric surround apparatus 100.

Referring FIG. 1, pocket 50 in this first exemplary embodiment isgenerally shown with at least one outward wall such as wall 52, a sidewall such as wall 53, a bottom wall 55. Wall 56 is shown on pocket 50 asa transition area from at least one of wall 53 to wall 52, and wall 52to wall 55, others not mentioned here. At least one of wall 53, wall 52,wall 56, wall 55, pocket 50 may at least one of correspond, conform,shape to, assume the shape of an any article tucked or placed intopocket 50, such as article 35 or a cell phone, as shown in FIG. 1. Atleast one of wall 53, wall 52, wall 56, wall 55, pocket 50 may be of atleast one of a different shape, different geometry, more rigid, moreflexible, others not mentioned here, compared with the illustrativeconcept of FIGS. 1 through 6.

Pocket 50 in this illustration of FIG. 1 is shown with at least threesides such as wall 53, wall 52 and bottom wall 55, and with the openingof opening 54 of FIG. 4, shown facing generally upwards or towards thetop of fabric surround apparatus 100 to receive an article or item forstorage. Pocket 50 could vary in arrangement, orientation, size, thenumber bounded sides, the number of bindings, the number of openings,could include a zipper, could include a button, could include Velcro,others not mentioned here.

Pocket 50 may generally provide at least one of flexibility,stretchability, elasticity, a compressive force acting on an item placedinto pocket 50, the ability to develop a tensile force to act on an itemplaced inside fabric sleeve apparatus 100, the ability to impart a forceupon any item placed into or unto pocket 50. Similarly, at least one ofband 51 and pocket 50 may provide a force, such as an inward radialforce thereupon any item place in pocket 50, and any item located inpocket 50 which expands any portion of pocket 50. Band 51 may provide amajor portion of any holding force upon any item stored in pocket 50.

While pocket 50 of FIG. 1 is shown with as at least one pocket of fabricsurround apparatus 100, fabric surround apparatus 100 may contain aplurality of pockets. At least one pocket and a plurality of pockets,may be arranged on at least one surface of fabric surround apparatus100, such as wall 5, wall 52, wall 20, wall 53, band 30, band 61, pocket50, others not mentioned here.

Pocket 50 may have at least one internal diameter, internal walldiameter, nominal diameter, any diameter, any dimension, any radius,external diameter, outer diameter sized such as to provide a fit that isat least one of snugly, an interference fit, a frictional fit, anelastic fit, with any article stored in one of pocket 50 and fabricsurround apparatus 100.

User link 40 as shown in FIG. 1 is shown connected to at least one ofpocket 50, wall 52, union 45, and band 51 in the current exemplaryembodiment, but could be located on any surface of any portion of fabricsurround apparatus 100. Using link 40 may include applying force ontolink 40 during disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 onto anycylinder, a means of hanging and connecting fabric surround apparatus100 to any other item, a means to expand any diameter of fabric surroundapparatus 100, used to expand any diameter or portion of pocket 50, usedto apply force to band 41, used to access opening 54 opening bounded byband 51, others not mentioned here.

Now referring to FIG. 2, fabric surround apparatus 100 is at least oneof partially disposed and disposed over at least one portion of cylinder70, such as a bottle. Cylinder 70 possesses wall 71, diameter 72, andbottom 73. Wall 71 will generally possess a diameter that is larger thanthe diameter of at least one wall of fabric surround apparatus 100, band61, band 30, others not mentioned here. During disposing fabric surroundapparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70, at least one portion of cylinder 70may have at least one force applied to cylinder 70 causing cylinder 70to remain sufficiently immobile to allow fabric surround apparatus 100to dispose onto cylinder 70. In addition, to dispose fabric surroundapparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70, at least one force may be appliedto at least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, link 40,bottom 60, band 61, wall 5, pocket 50, band 30, top 25, external wall20, others not mentioned here.

Referring to FIG. 2, the distance fabric surround apparatus 100 isdisposed unto an article such as cylinder 70, a bottle, is determined bymanaging the application of force during the disposing fabric surroundapparatus 100 thereupon cylinder 70.

In the case of partial disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 uponcylindrical item 70, such as shown in FIG. 2, an action such as at leastone of disposing fabric surround apparatus 100 onto cylindrical item 70,and removing fabric surround apparatus 100 from and to cylindrical item70 may occur. As an example relating to the at least one of aninterference, frictional, and elastic fit providing a releasableattachment, an outer diameter of cylinder 70, such as diameter 72 ofFIG. 2, may be larger than any internal portion of at any portion offabric surround apparatus 100, such as any wall of apparatus 100,through opening 62 in FIG. 1, through opening 26, band 61, and bottom60, others not mentioned here. This dimensional difference orinterference, such as between the diameter of cylindrical item 70 andany portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, provides at least oneinterference fit, elastic fit, compressive fit, frictional fit betweencylindrical item 70 and any portion of fabric surround apparatus 100.This interference or frictional fit serves the purpose of allowingfabric surround apparatus 100 to releasably engage an item such ascylindrical item 70. This releasable engagement serves a purpose ofkeeping fabric surround apparatus 100 releasably disposed overcylindrical item 70, until cylinder 70 is removed from fabric surroundapparatus 100. The removal of fabric surround apparatus 100 fromcylinder 70 may be performed by applying at least one force to at leastone a portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70.The application of force to remove fabric surround apparatus 100 fromcylindrical item 70 may be at least one force applied to fabric surroundapparatus 100 in a general pulling or tensile effort with at least oneforce applied to cylindrical item 70 in a generally, or somewhat,opposing direction.

Also referring FIG. 2, in a current exemplary embodiment, while apartial disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item70 is shown, the continued disposing of fabric surround apparatus 100over cylindrical item 70 would result in the full disposing orinstallation of fabric surround apparatus 100 over cylindrical item 70.

Referring FIG. 3, fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown fully disposedover cylindrical item 70, with item 35 such as a cell phone, shown atleast one of placed, tucked, releasably inserted, and inserted into atleast one of band 51 and at least one portion of pocket 50. Cylindricalitem 70, as shown in FIG. 3, is illustrated with top 73, wall 71, bottom73, and diameter 72.

Also shown in FIG. 3, the full disposing of fabric surround apparatus100 over cylindrical item 70 leaves at least one portion, such as atleast one of cap 73 and bottom 73 of cylindrical item 70, extending atleast one of therefrom and therethrough fabric surround apparatus 100.At least one portion of the first wall of apparatus 100, and the secondwall of apparatus 100 such as wall 5, and a first band such as band 30and band 61, releasably attaches to the larger diameter cylinder duringthe disposing of the flexible annular cylinder surround thereupon thelarger diameter cylinder, such as cylindrical item 70.

While at least one of a frictional, elastic, compressive andinterference fit may exist between at least one portion of fabricsurround apparatus 100 and cylindrical item 70, fabric surroundapparatus 100 is at least one of rotatable and rotatably mountedthereupon an item such as cylindrical item 70. This at least one ofrotatable and rotatably mounted fabric surround apparatus 100 allowsrotation of fabric surround apparatus 100 relative to cylindrical item70, upon the application of at least one force, moment, and torsion uponat least one portion of fabric surround apparatus 100 and cylindricalitem 70. This rotatable and rotatably mounted fabric aspect of surroundapparatus 100 upon cylindrical item 70 may be included in at least oneof the dimensional sizing of any portion of apparatus 100, theoverwhelming the at least one frictional and elastic and interferencefit, be a product of the material of fabrication of fabric surroundapparatus 100, be a product of any material to develop at least one offabric surround apparatus 100, stitch 16, stitch 10, stitch 65, band 30,band 61, wall 5, opening 62, others not mentioned here.

While FIG. 3 as illustrated is shown with fabric surround apparatus 100disposed over bottle 70, any generally cylindrical item could reasonablybe used with fabric surround apparatus 100, such as an item of at leastone of any reasonable shape, geometry, size, diameter, height, a cup, athermos, a bottle, a can, others not mentioned here. As an example, afabric surround diameter, may be used on bottles in range of 2.75″ to 5″in diameter. Also as an example the diameter of the fabric surround maybe in range of 1.75″ to 3.5″ for the current exemplary embodiment.

Now referring to FIG. 4, a side view of a fabric surround apparatus 100is shown with the illustration of a second wall 5, band 30, top 25, anexternal wall such as wall 20, opening 54, user link 40, wall 53, pocket50, wall 52, bottom 60, band 61, stitch 65, others not mentioned here. Afirst wall is provided on the internal wall of the cylinder. Opening 54is the opening of pocket 50, with the storage space of pocket 50extending generally downwards thereunto pocket 50. Wall 5 is shownextending from seam 15 radially around fabric surround apparatus 100 tocreate the external second wall of the fabric surround apparatus 100cylinder. Wall 5 may extend from seam 15 at least one of around aportion of the circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100, aroundthe full circumference of fabric surround apparatus 100, around at leastone radial portion of fabric surround apparatus 100, others notmentioned here. While wall 5 is shown illustratively to extend from atleast one of band 30, top 25, and stitch 10 to at least one of stitch65, band 61, bottom 60, an external wall or surface of fabric surroundapparatus 100, such as external wall 5, could be formed by more than atleast one section, divide, surface and material.

Now referring FIG. 5, fabric surround apparatus 100 with a plurality ofpockets is shown releasably disposed over cylinder 75. Cylinder 75 isprovided with an outer surface or diameter such as wall 81, top 80,bottom 82. Fabric surround apparatus 100 is shown with seam 57, pocket50, secondary pocket 53, item 35, an external wall such as wall 5,pocket opening 54, bottom 60, top 25, tertiary pocket 63, and tertiarypocket opening 58. This is an illustration of additional storage areasor pockets on fabric surround apparatus 100 or an external surface suchas surface 5. At least one friction agent, such as a frictionalcoefficient improvement coating, anti-slip fabric coating, nonslipfabric coating, friction agent may be applied to any wall of the fabricsurround, including any portion of any wall or any portion of a pocketof the surround. This friction agent provides at least one of additionalgrip, friction, an increase in frictional coefficient, an increase infrictional coefficient while still providing a releasable attachment.

Referring FIG. 6A through 6D, at least one portion of a method of atleast one of making, manufacturing, fabricating at least one portion offabric surround apparatus 100 is shown.

In FIG. 6A, band 51 is shown in a basic form for at least one offabrication and manufacture. The band is made from at least one offorming, selecting and cutting a band, such as an elastic band, todesired size and length. Band 51 may attach to the top of a first formedfabric article, such as top 99 of FIG. 6C. Band 51 may be provided in alength that is less than the length of top 99 of FIG. 6C to develop anincreased elastic force of band 51 upon any article stored in pocket 50.

In FIG. 6B, a band such as band 30 and band 61 are shown in a basic formfor at least one of fabrication and manufacture. The band may be madefrom selecting and cutting a band, such as an elastic band, to desiredsize, and length, and forming thereunto to at least one edge, such astop 25 and bottom 60 of a first formed fabric article, such as a firstformed fabric article 95 of FIG. 6D. At least one of band 61 and band 30may be provided in a length that is less than the length of top 30 ofFIG. 6D to develop an increased elastic force of at least one of band 61and band 30 upon any cylindrical item placed thereunto fabric surroundapparatus 100.

In FIG. 6D, at least one first formed fabric article 95 with a wall,such as wall 5, is shown with a second formed fabric article 50 attachedto at least one of one portion of the first fabric article 5, such aswall 5, edge 90, bottom 60 and band 61. Band 30 and band 61 are shownformed thereunto top 25 and bottom 60. To produce fabric surroundapparatus 100 from the basic form as shown in FIG. 6D, at least oneedge, such as edge 90 may be attached to an opposing edge, such as edge18 to develop the cylindrical form of fabric surround apparatus 100,with pocket 50 disposed on the external portion of fabric surroundapparatus 100, such as on wall 5.

In FIG. 6C, at least one second formed fabric article 50 is illustratedin a basic form for manufacture. This second formed fabric article 50 isformed to provide pocket 50 in a completed fabric surround apparatus100. Once formed, this second formed fabric article 50 of FIG. 6C, mayattach by at least one of bottom 96, edge 98, and edge 97 of fabricsecond formed article 50, to at least one of bottom 60, band 61, surface5, edge 90, and others not mentioned here of a first formed fabricarticle 95.

This cylinder surround, or bottle surround, may be manufactured from afirst quadrilateral fabric material whereby the sides and bottom of asecond fabric material are attached to the first quadrilateral fabricmaterial, typically in a corner of the first quadrilateral fabricmaterial, to form a pocket thereupon the first quadrilateral fabricmaterial. An elastic band may be attached to at least one of the top andbottom of the first, generally quadrilateral, fabric material. Whilepositioning the pocket formed by the second fabric material on the outerportion of the bottle surround apparatus, a first end edge of the firstquadrilateral fabric may be attached to the second end edge of the firstquadrilateral fabric to form a generally cylindrical or annular fabricapparatus with an elastic band at the top and bottom, and a pocket onthe external or second wall of the apparatus. At least one of theelastic bands and the inside wall of the bottle surround provide areleasable attachment between at least one of the fabric bottle surroundapparatus and the bottle, as well as between any surface of the pocketand an item placed in the pocket.

Optionally, apparatus 100 could have at least one of a radio frequencyidentification also called RFID, global positioning system, GPS, spatialcoordinate system, spatial coordinate locating system, others notmentioned here, used to locate at least one portion of fabric surroundapparatus 100. This could also include means of tracking, locating,tracking for exercise purposes, tracking motion, and also transmittingdata to computers either wired or wireless.

Also, while the current exemplary embodiment is illustrated herein, theaddition of at least one additional device may be at least one ofmounted on and located around an outer perimeter or periphery of eitherof fabric surround apparatus 100, wall 5, pocket 50, others notmentioned here.

What is claimed is:
 1. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising: aflexible annular cylinder surround having a first wall provided by theinternal wall of the cylinder; a second wall provided by the externalwall of the cylinder; a cavity formed therein by the first wall of thecylinder; at least one pocket formed thereupon the second wall; at leastone seam on at least one of the first wall and second wall; at least onefirst band formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of atleast one of the first wall and the second wall; at least one secondband formed thereupon one portion of the pocket.
 2. The cylindricalsurround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least one portion ofthe first wall and second wall and first band releasably attaches to alarger diameter cylinder when the cylindrical surround apparatus isdisposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.
 3. The cylindricalsurround apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pocket has at leastone seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottomof the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of thesecond wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radiuscompared with the radius of the pocket.
 4. The cylindrical surroundapparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least two bands bind thebottle surround apparatus at the top and at the bottom the first walland the second wall, where by the diameter of at least one of the atleast two bands is less than diameter of the cylindrical surroundapparatus.
 5. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1whereby at least one friction agent is applied to at least one portionof the first wall and any portion of a pocket formed thereupon thesecond wall.
 6. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 1whereby a user link is provided thereupon at least one of any wall andpocket thereof the cylindrical surround apparatus.
 7. The cylindricalsurround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the at least one firstband formed thereupon at least one of the top and bottom of at least oneof the first wall and second wall is elastic and of smaller diameterthan the diameter of one of the first wall and second wall.
 8. Thecylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at leastone of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, areleasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one ofthe first wall and second wall and first band and any surface of anylarger diameter cylinder during disposing of at least one of the firstwall and second wall and first band thereupon any larger diametercylinder compared with the diameter of the first wall of the cylindricalsurround apparatus.
 9. The cylindrical surround apparatus according toclaim 2, wherein at least one of the first wall and second wall andfirst band imparts at least one force, radial force, compressive force,inward radial force, and reaction force upon any larger diametercylinder placed therein at least one of the first wall and the secondwall of the cylindrical surround apparatus.
 10. The apparatus accordingto claim 2 whereby at least one friction agent is adhered to at leastone of at least one portion of the first wall and second wall and thepocket formed thereupon the second wall.
 11. The bottle surroundapparatus according to claim 2, whereby the at least one pocket formedon the second wall of the flexible annular cylinder surround has a bandformed thereunto the top seam of the pocket.
 12. The cylindricalsurround apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pocket has at leastone seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket and the bottomof the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the top portion of thesecond wall and the pocket is bound by a second band of a lesser radiuscompared with the radius of the pocket.
 13. The apparatus of claim 3whereby the binding is at least one of combined and integral to anyother binding seam on at least one of the first wall and the secondwall.
 14. The apparatus of claim 4 whereby at least one of the firstwall and the second wall is at least one of polyester, a knit, jerseyknit, and spandex.
 15. The cylindrical surround apparatus according toclaim 7, wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least oneof one side of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby thepocket opening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocketis bound by a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius ofthe pocket.
 16. A cylindrical surround apparatus comprising: a flexiblefabric cylinder surround with a top and bottom having a through-openingformed therethrough; a first wall provided by the internal cylindersurround wall; a second wall provided by the external cylinder surroundwall; a pocket formed on the second wall bound by a first side and asecond side and a top and bottom; a circular elastic band formed thereonthe top and bottom of the cylinder; an elastic band formed thereon thetop of the pocket; a circumferential seam binding formed thereon the topand bottom of the cylinder surround extending the periphery thereof, andbinding the elastic bands on the top and bottom of the cylinder; a seambinding on the first and second side of the pocket, spanning thecylinder longitudinally; a user link attached to a portion of thepocket;
 17. The apparatus of claim 16 disposed over a larger diametercylinder providing a releasable attached configuration between thefabric cylinder surround and an outer diameter of the larger diametercylinder.
 18. The cylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 16,wherein the pocket has at least one seam binding at least one of oneside of the pocket and the bottom of the pocket whereby the pocketopening faces the top portion of the second wall and the pocket is boundby a second band of a lesser radius compared with the radius of thepocket.
 19. The apparatus of claim of 18 whereby at least one of thefirst fabric and the second fabric article are at least one ofpolyester, spandex, a knit, a jersey knit.
 20. The apparatus of claim 19wherein a friction agent is applied to the first wall providing anincreased friction coefficient thereunto.
 21. The apparatus of claim 19,wherein the larger diameter cylinder is at least one of a bottle andthermos and cup and water bottle.
 22. A cylindrical surround apparatuscomprising: an elastic cylinder surround having a first wall provided bythe internal wall of the cylinder; a second wall provided by theexternal wall of the cylinder; a cavity formed therein by the first wallof the cylinder; a pocket formed thereupon the second wall; at least oneseam on at least one of the first wall and second wall;
 23. Thecylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein at leastone portion of the first wall and second wall releasably attaches to alarger diameter cylinder when at least one of the first wall and secondwall is disposed thereupon the larger diameter cylinder.
 24. Thecylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the pockethas at least one seam binding at least one of one side of the pocket andthe bottom of the pocket whereby the pocket opening faces the topportion of the second wall and the pocket is bound by at least one bandof a lesser radius compared with the radius of the pocket.
 25. Thecylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 23, wherein the atleast one first wall and second wall are at least one of elastic and ofsmaller diameter than the diameter of the larger cylinder.
 26. Thecylindrical surround apparatus according to claim 25, wherein at leastone of a releasable frictional fit, a releasable compressive fit, areleasable attachment is formed between any portion of at least one ofthe first wall and second an any larger diameter cylinder placedthereunto at least one of the first wall and second wall.